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so in 1975 he gave us all a glass of wine. and he was talking kind of funny while he was giving it to us. just throwing out little hints i personally thought it was poison and i personally was delighted. i thought at last i won't have to go through this anymore. and i drank it. and then afterward it wasn't poison. and he said this is just a test. one of these days i might have a little surprise for you. >> on november 18, 1978 they performed that suicide ritual one last time. this time the drink did contain poison. and more than 900 people died. ktvu's bob mackenzie continues our look back at the worse mass murder and suicide in american history. >> there is no video tape of what was happening back at the compound. perhaps that's a blessing. but there is a sound recording of jim jones telling his flock it was time for them to die. >> i cannot live that way. i've lived for all and i die for all. lay down your burdens, and i will lay down my burdens down by the river bed. please forgod sake let's get on with it. we've lived like
so in 1975 he gave us all a glass of wine. and he was talking kind of funny while he was giving it to us. just throwing out little hints i personally thought it was poison and i personally was delighted. i thought at last i won't have to go through this anymore. and i drank it. and then afterward it wasn't poison. and he said this is just a test. one of these days i might have a little surprise for you. >> on november 18, 1978 they performed that suicide ritual one last time. this time...
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a group robbed a bank that used to be here on arden way of 3,700. months later police found out that group was the sla. very early one morning in march someone beat a man for less than $100. sirens screaming, lights flashing, no one knew what could be going on. a woman in a nightgown peaked from behind the door saying everyone who had been there earlier had gone to work. it turns out that woman was patty hurst. >> we found out later she was arrested they were in the house and that the harris' were standing behind the door with the machine guns thinking police were there to arrest him. >> reporter: bobby waters enforced laws. the lieu ten in -- lieutenant in charge of homicides. he investigated the killing. unaware that the sla was there too. he's just thankful the harris' did not open fire. >> we had no idea that they had that kind of fire power. it just worked out or i would not be standing here. >> reporter: a man renting out his midtown garage called police saying he thought the renters had stolen cars in the garage. police say indeed they found
a group robbed a bank that used to be here on arden way of 3,700. months later police found out that group was the sla. very early one morning in march someone beat a man for less than $100. sirens screaming, lights flashing, no one knew what could be going on. a woman in a nightgown peaked from behind the door saying everyone who had been there earlier had gone to work. it turns out that woman was patty hurst. >> we found out later she was arrested they were in the house and that the...
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i think there were three of us. so they put a bomb at my home, which detonated but fortunately it had dropped below freezing at the detonation point and the plastic explosive that was in it didn't explode. it just detonated. >> reporter: after that attack feinstein a strong gun control advocate carried a concealed weapon when she walked to the hospital to visit her dying husband. >> there was so much hate in the city. that i decided that what i had to do was put the bricks together again. see in the course of doing it, it was a learning experience for me. and it sort of formulated my political philosophy. >> her moderate centrus political philosophy. the mayor decided to reach out. in the hours after dan white was found guilty of manslaughter not murder in the deaths of maconi and milk the city erupted in violent protests. police were overwhelmed and were filmed beating people in a gay bar in the castro district. >> it was in those meetings as a matter of fact when somebody said, we have purple lesions appearing on
i think there were three of us. so they put a bomb at my home, which detonated but fortunately it had dropped below freezing at the detonation point and the plastic explosive that was in it didn't explode. it just detonated. >> reporter: after that attack feinstein a strong gun control advocate carried a concealed weapon when she walked to the hospital to visit her dying husband. >> there was so much hate in the city. that i decided that what i had to do was put the bricks together...
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the use of oil revolutionized the way war was waged. oils fueled the planes, tanks, ships and -- that fueled the war. by the end of the war america was consuming more oil than it could produce. there was a real fear that the nation was running out of oil. in 1919 american companies were spending $400 million in marketing and oil refining. by 1925, they were spending a billion dollars on exploration alone. at home, oil began to literally gush. production doubled from 1918 to 1923. by 1929 it had tripled and past the billion barrel mark for the first time. in the 1920s, alameda county was the fastest growing area in the country. and with the growth came the reliability on the automobile. with chevrolet andford operating in oakland the city became known as the detroit of the west. ferry boats did an admiral job of shuttling people and automobiles back and forth. as far as cars were concerned there was a better way to link san francisco and oakland. at the cost of $75 million the san francisco oakland bay bridge was built. the opening of th
the use of oil revolutionized the way war was waged. oils fueled the planes, tanks, ships and -- that fueled the war. by the end of the war america was consuming more oil than it could produce. there was a real fear that the nation was running out of oil. in 1919 american companies were spending $400 million in marketing and oil refining. by 1925, they were spending a billion dollars on exploration alone. at home, oil began to literally gush. production doubled from 1918 to 1923. by 1929 it had...